The New York Times - Monday, April 8, 1895
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JUSTICE, EVEN FOR OSCAR WILDE
Sydney Grundy's Plea for Due Credit to the Dramatist for His Works.
LONDON, April 7. -- Sydney Grundy, the dramatist, has written The Daily Telegraph a letter regarding the removal of Oscar Wilde's name from the programme of his plays. He asks:
LONDON, April 7. - Sydney Grundy, the dramatist, has written the Daily Telegraph a letter regarding the removal of Oscar Wilde's name from the programmes of his plays. He asks:
London, April 7. - Sydney Grundy, the dramatist, has written to "The Daily Telegraph" a letter regarding the removal of Oscar Wilde's name from the programme of his plays. He asks:
"By what principle of justice or charity is the author's name blotted fro his work? If a man is not to be credited with what he has done well, by what right is he punished for what he has done ill?"
"By what principle of justice or charity is the author's name blotted from his work? If a man is not to be credited with what he has done well, by what right is he punished for what he has done ill?"
By what principle of justice or charity is the author's name blotted from his work? If a man is not to be credited with what he has done well, by what right is he punished for what he has done ill?
I wonder on what principle of law, or justice, or common sense, or good manners, or Christian charity, an author's name is blotted from his work. If a man is not to be credited with what he has done well, by what right is he punished for what he has done ill?
Mr. Sydney Grundy writes to the Telegraph:—"I wonder on what principle of law, or justice, or common sense, or good manners, or Christian charity, an author's name is blotted from his work. If a man is not to be credited with what he has done well, by what right is he punished for what he has done ill?
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